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Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts
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A theory of humor elicitation.
Robert S. Wyer,James E. Collins +1 more
TL;DR: A general theory of humor elicitation is presented that specifies the conditions in which humor is experienced in both social and nonsocial situations and the cognitive underpinnings of responses to ethnic humor and to the humor that is elicited by one's own behavior in social situations.
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On Defining Communicative Intentions
TL;DR: In this paper, we will focus on the second part of Grice's program as discussed by the authors, which is to analyze semantic notions such as sentence meaning or word meaning in terms of a pragmatic notion of communicative intention.
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Incrementality and intention-recognition in utterance processing.
Eleni Gregoromichelaki,Ruth Kempson,Matthew Purver,Gregory Mills,Ronnie Cann,Wilfried Meyer-Viol,Patrick G. T. Healey +6 more
TL;DR: This paper examines the phenomenon of split utterances, from the perspective of Dynamic Syntax, to further probe the necessity of full intention recognition/formation in communication, and illustrates how many dialogue phenomena can be seen as direct consequences of the grammar architecture, as long as this is presented within an incremental, goal-directed/predictivemodel.
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Information retrieval and the philosophy of language
TL;DR: It is taken that information retrieval systems are fundamentally linguistic in nature - in essence, the languages of document representation and searching are dialects of natural language.
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Do me a favor: A descriptive analysis of favor asking sequences in American English
TL;DR: The authors investigates the linguistic realization of a particular speech act, culturally defined as favor asking among speakers of American English, and focuses on the choices people make when asking and responding to favors in terms of their rights and obligations to one another, thus fitting neatly into pragmatics as a function of communication.